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The Ariane 5 software failure

The work

AuthorsMark Dowson
Editors
Typemisc
Year1997
Also known asanon1997ariane
Citekeydowson1997ariane

Where it appeared

PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/251880.251992

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Cite it as

@misc{dowson1997ariane,
  title        = {The Ariane 5 software failure},
  author       = {Mark Dowson},
  year         = {1997},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
  doi          = {10.1145/251880.251992},
}

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